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The $175K Factory Worker: What Happens When Employees Own Stock
Given private equity’s reach (1 in 25 work for a business owned by a PE firm), the industry has the power to shape work culture at scale, for better …
Money With Katie
04/30/2025
Talking Tariffs and Trade Wars with Grace Blakeley and Kathryn Edwards
Two of our most popular guests—economist Kathryn Edwards (aka Keds) and writer Grace Blakeley—return today for a timely conversation about tariffs, t…
Money With Katie
04/23/2025
On Bailouts, Being "Too Big to Fail," and Little Luxuries
In this week’s Rich Girl Roundup review—joined by a special surprise guest—we’re discussing your feedback, critiques, and questions about… The epis…
Money With Katie
04/09/2025
Money, Fashion, and the Aesthetics of Class Politics
When I met Véronique Hyland, author of the bestselling book Dress Code about how fashion intersects with politics, gender, and class (and the person …
Money With Katie
04/02/2025
Why Economist Kathryn Edwards is Optimistic About America’s Future
2025’s financial news cycle feels like a broken wind-up doll, where recession indicators, unemployment numbers, inflation data, and tax cuts are #Jus…
Money With Katie
03/26/2025
Is This Simple Idea the Solution for America's Wealth Inequality?
It’s easy to point out that wealth inequality in America is a problem. It’s much harder to identify realistic fixes. But what if there were a simple,…
Money With Katie
03/19/2025
On "Return to Office" & Daycare as Class Issues, the Role of Profit, and Being "Entitled"
It’s hard to believe, but somehow it’s already time for another Rich Girl Roundup about our last three deep dives: The Real Cost of Being a Working…
Money With Katie
03/05/2025
The Truth about "Government Waste," Privatizing Public Goods, & Turning Citizens into Customers
For years, I’ve referenced the book The Privatization of Everything as a seminal work in my understanding of the relationship between government and …
Money With Katie
02/26/2025
How Home Insurance and Climate Change are Upending the Real Estate Market
The average middle class family has 67% of their net worth tied up in its primary residence. But there’s one looming issue: Rising insurance rates an…
Money With Katie
02/19/2025
The Real Cost of Being a Working Parent
In the past, we covered the national average costs for different types of child care and how it may be directly related to the gender wage and wealth…
Money With Katie
02/12/2025
On "Dangerous" Financial Advice, Downsizing, and Dying with Zero
It's our first newly revamped Rich Girl Roundup of 2025, and we’re taking you on a scenic guided tour of the chatter spurred from recent episodes: ou…
Money With Katie
02/05/2025
“You Just Have to Keep Buying”: How Diet Culture Profits from Fatphobia
Welcome back to Part Two of our series, the Economics of Weight Loss Drugs. (If you haven’t heard Part One, listen here!) Today, we’re picking back…
Money With Katie
01/22/2025
The Economics of Weight Loss Drugs, Thinness, and Class Signaling
We’ve all heard about Ozempic. But there are the GLP-1s we colloquially call “Ozempic” (see also: Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound) and then there’s the cu…
Money With Katie
01/15/2025
What's Next for The Money with Katie Show
After three years and 255 episodes, we take a walk down memory lane to reflect on some of our top episodes of The Money with Katie Show thus far—and …
Money With Katie
01/08/2025
Why This Finance Expert Says You Don't Need to Budget
Most personal finance advice falls into one of two camps: one that implicitly assumes that humans need discipline, control, and punishment, and the o…
Money With Katie
01/01/2025
Chelsea Fagan & Berna Anat on Building Resources with Community, Taking Action Offline, and Consume…
Chelsea Fagan of The Financial Diet and Berna Anat of New Dimes join us for our last Rich Girl Roundtable of the year. We cover everything from women…
Money With Katie
12/30/2024
The Biggest Healthcare Myths, with an Insurance VP Turned Whistleblower
The recent coverage around the healthcare industry from major media outlets has left me...wanting. So given this news cycle, I wanted to talk about s…
Money With Katie
12/18/2024
The F-150 is the Best-Selling Car in America. Most of Us Can't Afford It.
"Who can afford all these $75,000 Ford F-150s?" asked Rich Girl Ally—so we decided to dive in. We're looking at the cost of cars today, "big car" cul…
Money With Katie
12/16/2024
Ramit Sethi on How to Make Your Relationship Finances Feel Amazing
In 2019, I read Ramit Sethi’s bestseller I Will Teach You to Be Rich for the first time—and it was nothing short of revelatory for me. Since then, Ra…
Money With Katie
12/11/2024
Stocks Are at All-Time Highs. What Does That Mean for Your Investing Strategy?
Rich Guy Ryan's girlfriend just got a raise, and they're interested in opening an IRA for her to begin investing—but stocks keep hitting new all-time…
Money With Katie
12/09/2024